Following a legal challenge
against the CEO's
proposal to purchase all of the outstanding LSR stock, an intense global
campaign and recent repression
against SHAC in Birmingham, a total of 797,284 shares have now been sold.
Barclays Global Investors, Barclays Plc, Hartford Investment Management Company,
Rice Hall James and Associates LLC, Bank of New York Mellon and Wells Fargo sold
all their shares, of which over 400,000 were held by previously largest
shareholder Barclays.

Since HLS' largest investors dumped all shares in July 2008 (1 | 2), Barclays have
attracted hundreds of protests in London, Hampshire, Birmingham, Cambridge,
Yorkshire, Tamworth, Manchester, Coventry, Carlisle, Luton, Worcester,
Liverpool, Durham, Dublin, Glasgow, Europe and home demos against executives in
the US. Furthermore, Animal
Liberation Front (ALF) and anonymous activists claimed over thirty sabotage
actions across the UK including dozens of cashpoints glued, banks painted
and a home visit
for Barclays Chairman in Hampshire.

HLS are currently �72
million in debt, with their 1st quarter revenue for 2009 down 24% from 2008,
causing managing director Brain Cass this year to admit "...the outlook
remains uncertain". SHAC called for
supporters to "...make sure it stays that way and smash HLS for
good!"

An Introduction: Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)

Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) are in the business of poisoning healthy
animals to death. They are a contract testing operation that tests products for
others. They have three sites two in the UK and one in the US. Five hundred
animals are put to death every day by HLS, killing tens of thousands of horses,
cats, dogs, primates, rabbits, hamsters, rats, mice and fish amongst others each
year.

SHAC was set with the sole aim of closing HLS down. The campaign was set up
at the end of 1999 by a group of activists who had successfully closed down
Consort kennels and Hillgrove cat farm. Both campaigns ended with the businesses
closing down and hundreds of animals being safely rehomed instead of tortured in
labs.

Shareholders, stockbrokers, market makers, suppliers and clients have all
dumped HLS, including the world�s largest companies; all four main high street
banks in the UK, the world�s largest financial institution, the world�s second
largest bank and the world�s largest insurance broker. Huntingdon are $72
million dollars in debt with NO commercial bank and insurance company anywhere
in the world prepared to deal with them.

HLS� key weakness is their finances and by throwing the spotlight on those
funding their abuse campaigners across the globe have managed to bring HLS to
the brink of financial collapse. Throughout the campaign activists have made
financial history as one by one major corporations have yielded to protester
power and severed their links with the failing company.

Campaigners use evidence obtained in seven undercover investigations at their
different laboratories in the UK and USA where HLS workers have been caught on
film punching puppies in the face, simulating sex with animals in their care,
cutting open primates while they are still alive and falsifying experiments to
get products on the market. HLS workers have even been caught drunk at work and
dealing drugs at the labs.

Huntingdon Life Sciences have a criminal record from a British court of law
for breaking the Companies� Act. They are the only UK laboratory to ever have
their licence revoked by the government.